Joseph Mercier

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Research

Areas of Research

• Queer Performance and Politics 

• Performing Sexualities and Sexual Subcultures

• The Politics of Shame  and Failure 

• Performance Presence, Spectacle and Virtuosity 

• Autobiographical Performance and Performing Subjectivities

• Movement and Physical Practices, including Mixed Martial Arts, Pro-wrestling, Fitness and Acrobatics  

• Critiquing Ballet Cultures   

• Dramaturgies 

Published Scholarly Research

Forthcoming:  'Pink Feathers: The Ballet Closet and Three Gay remakes of Swan Lake (1995-2005)' in Risner, D. and Watson, B. (eds). Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don't) Dance. Palgrave McMilllan: London.  


With Penny Arcade: "Fag, Hag, Drag: Penny Arcade's Archive of Otherness' in Farrier, S. and Edwards, M. (eds) (2021) Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a changing Scene.  Bloomsbury: London


With Martin O'Brien and Gillie Kleiman, 'Threesome', in Dance Theatre Journal, 24, 4 (2011)

Other Writing

I have also worked as a journalist and have interviewed artists such as Genesis P'orrdige (Throbbing Gristle an Pyschic Tv), Anhoni (Anthony and the Johnsons), Jay Brennan, Jonathan Saunders, Gang Gang Dance, Fan Death and Animal from the Muppets!  


I have written for Pop Magazine, Love Magazine, Gay Times, The Guardian and QX Magazine.  

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